culture wars

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/16/2021
  

  Why We Should Cancel The Phrase ‘Cancel Culture’

  by Max Boot

  There are legitimate and important arguments about how much society should tolerate offensive or controversial speech, and how much the markets or public opinion should sanction individuals for what they say. The current "cancel culture" outrage on the right has nothing to do with these arguments. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/17/2021
  

  Why Can't Britain Handle the Truth about Winston Churchill?

  by Priyamvada Gopal

  "Churchill was an admired wartime leader who recognised the threat of Hitler in time and played a pivotal role in the allied victory. It should be possible to recognise this without glossing over his less benign side."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/9/2020
  

  What Attacks on Science Get Wrong

  by Andrew Jewett

  Reductive diagnoses of a "war on science" ignore the specific political and cultural stakes of controversies around vaccination, climate, or creationism. 

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• 9/6/2020
  

  The Latest Resurgence of Ethnic Studies

  by Elwood Watson

  The history of ethnic studies as an academic movement is a cycle of rise and retrenchment; protest movements often push for more representative curricula, while forces of tradition and austerity seek to uphold a canon or push majors linked directly to the job market. Today's protest movements are pushing an ethnic studies renaissance despite the dire financial straits of many colleges and students.

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• SOURCE: Religion and Politics
  12-10-15
  

  Stephen Prothero says liberals always win culture wars

  That’s his conclusion after a careful review of culture wars since 1800.

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• SOURCE: Global Politics
  9-30-15
  

  Women’s Rights and the Decline of the Culture Wars

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Last Sunday, at the United Nations, world leaders marked the 20th anniversary of the landmark Beijing accord on women’s rights. They celebrated women’s progress—especially in education, health, and labor—and underscored ongoing gender inequalities.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  4-23-15
  

  Historian hailed for offering a history of the culture wars

  As a guide to the late twentieth century culture wars, Andrew Hartman is unrivalled.

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• 3-22-15
  

  Right Versus Left: Culture Wars, Past and Present

  by Walter G. Moss

  Both left and right have something to learn from each other.

• SOURCE: McClatchy
  4-15-13
  

  Dallek and Leuchtenburg cited in McClatchy article on culture shift

  ...“On cultural issues, the direction the country is moving is more progressive,” said Will Marshall, president of the centrist Progressive Policy Institute. “But that’s less clear on economic issues.”The trend to more liberal cultural views is part of a “compassionate impulse” Americans have long held, said author and historian Robert Dallek....“There is a move in the direction of cultural pluralism,” said William Leuchtenburg, historian at the University of North Carolina, with people more accepting of different cultures, different lifestyles and different attitudes .That’s not to say that change comes smoothly. The willingness to change “goes in cycles,” Dallek said, as people stop to absorb a wave of change. Thus, the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s gave way to the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment for women, the rise of the Moral Majority and evangelical Christians in politics, and the tide of culturally conservative blue-collar Democrats abandoning their party and helping elect President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s....